Ala senator dislikes proposed NASA budget

Huntsville, Ala – - Alabama Sen. Richard Shelby is sharplycriticizing the Obama administration's proposed NASA budget, whichwould discontinue a major program at the Marshall Space FlightCenter in Huntsville. Shelby said Monday the budget plan would begin a "death march"for the future of human spaceflight. He says Congress shouldn'tallow what he calls the "reckless abandonment" of the program. The administration's budget doesn't include money for theConstellation program, which includes the Ares rocket being managedby the Marshall center at Redstone Arsenal. The goal was to returnAmericans to the moon and eventually send astronauts to Mars. Hundreds of people are working on the project in north Alabama.NASA already has spent more than $9 billion on Constellation.